diff --git a/data/magic.mse-game/script b/data/magic.mse-game/script
index fb8cb7c5..00158333 100644
--- a/data/magic.mse-game/script
+++ b/data/magic.mse-game/script
@@ -453,22 +453,8 @@ text_filter :=
 	replace@(
 		match: "\\[[SCTQXYZIWUBRG0-9/|]+\\]",
 		replace: {"<sym>" + mana_filter_t() + "</sym>"} ) +
-	# step 6a : curly double quotes
-	replace@(
-		match: "[[.quotation-mark.]]|“",
-		in_context: "[“][A-Za-z,.!?+$<>:;-— 0-9\\\\]*<match>",
-		replace: "”" )+
-	replace@(
-		match: "[[.quotation-mark.]]",
-		replace: "“" )+
-	# step 6b : curly single quotes
-	replace@(
-		match: "' |‘ ",
-		in_context: "[‘][A-Za-z,.!?+$<>:;-— 0-9\\\\]*<match>",
-		replace: "’ " )+
-	replace@(
-		match: " '",
-		replace: " ‘" )+
+	# step 6 : curly quotes
+	curly_quotes +
 	# step 7 : ???
 	replace@(
 	 	match: "[(]([^)\n]|[(][^)\n]*[)])*[)]?",
@@ -480,7 +466,6 @@ text_filter :=
 		     + "([[:lower:]])" # match this
 		     + "(?![)])",      # not followed by this
 		replace: { _1 + to_upper(_2) }) +
-	#curly_quotes +
 	# step 9 : spellcheck
 	{ if set.mark_errors then
 		check_spelling(
diff --git a/src/util/tagged_string.cpp b/src/util/tagged_string.cpp
index 89697204..44f4779d 100644
--- a/src/util/tagged_string.cpp
+++ b/src/util/tagged_string.cpp
@@ -607,6 +607,10 @@ void check_tagged(const String& str, bool check_balance) {
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- : Other utilities
 
+bool is_space_like(Char c) {
+	return isSpace(c) || c == _('(') || c == _('[') || c == _('{') || c == EN_DASH || c == EM_DASH;
+}
+
 String curly_quotes(String str, bool curl) {
 	bool open = true, in_tag = false;
 	FOR_EACH(c, str) {
@@ -620,7 +624,7 @@ String curly_quotes(String str, bool curl) {
 			in_tag = false;
 		} else if (!in_tag) {
 			// Also allow double-nesting of quotes
-			open = isSpace(c) || c == _('(') || c == _('[');
+			open = is_space_like(c);
 		}
 	}
 	return str;